Week 5: Where We’re From
EDUC 201 Discussion Section AD4
1. Attendance (3 min)
2. Upcoming Dates
- October 4: Group Presentations - Groups 3, 4, 7
- End of September: be settled in your Placement
- October 11: Vocab Test (Exam 1)
- November 8: Essay on Course Content (Exam 2)
- December 19: Final Project Due
3. Housekeeping (10 min)
- THANK YOU to Joel, Sarah, Peter, Joel, Meghan H., Ally, Katie, Emily K. for adding to the Glossary while reading!
- Vocab Exam will require a definition in your own words and an EXAMPLE OF HOW IT APPLIES in your lived experience, community placement, on campus, in life, etc. We will discuss this in class.
- A list of terms you will be responsible for knowing will be provided next week. I will pull 10 terms from that list for the exam on 10/11. The exam will be individual, not group.
- You will be allowed to bring 2 sheets of handwritten notes (front and back, so 4 pages total). YOU SHOULD INCLUDE WHICH READING YOU GOT THE DEFINITION FROM IN YOUR NOTES.
EXAMPLE TERM FOR VOCABULARY EXAM
- TERM FROM READING: Neo-Liberalism
- DEFINITION: according to the feminist article I read (Cartographies of Knowledge and Power), a form of liberalism that favors free market capitalism, privatization
- APPLICATION: neoliberal systems cut budgets and women suffer in the process. Capitalism is supposed to make money for everyone, but that’s not the case.
4. Group Presentations
- Borderlands
- We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know
- Revisiting Murals
- The Mobius Strip
5. Next week (10 min)
- Forum question DUE Sunday 10/1 at 11:59pm BASED ON READINGS FOR 10/3: Are you ever seen as stranger in the ways that James Baldwin describes? When and where does this happen to you – and how do you know you're seen that way? If you don't think you're seen as stranger, talk about why you think that is.
- You may or may not comment on others' posts (but it would be super cool if you do)
- Add relevant vocabulary words/definitions/APPLICATIONS to the Glossary as you come across terms you are unfamiliar with.
- Presentations next week...
Presentations Next Wednesday!
- Thoroughly read the article (or watch the video) as a group
- Create a visual presentation for class, in which you incorporate relevant terminology you pulled from the reading/video, important points, events, people, places, etc.
- Design some sort of interactive activity for the class to do, to assess their knowledge and get them engaged in the piece.
- Stranger in the Village: Group 7
- Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Group 3
- Forum Summary & Discussion (read all forum posts from the class after Sunday and pull out main themes, great points/quotes, shareable moments, good discussion points for the class that might spark a “Brave Space” conversation): Group 4